Friday, 2 December 2016
PHE's alcohol review: part 1 - the lies
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Public Health England (PHE) published their review of alcohol control policies today. It is a hodge-podge of wishful thinking, blinkered an...
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Brazilian smoking ban miracle
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This execrable study didn't get any media attention and when I saw it tweeted by Tobacco Control magazine I didn't even bother read...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The IQOS cometh
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Today sees the UK launch of Philip Morris's heat-not-burn product, IQOS, and the Today programme carried an item on it which you can lis...
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Last Orders podcast with Martin Durkin
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There's a new Spiked Last Orders podcast available. This month's guest is the great Martin Durkin (director of Brexit: The Movie , ...
Monday, 28 November 2016
Still no evidence of a slippery slope
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As we all know, the idea that the anti-smoking movement is a precursor to nanny state regulation of what we eat and drink is an evil myth sp...
Tobacco tokens
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My IEA colleague Len Shackleton has dug up an interesting debate from 1957 about tobacco coupons for the elderly. In 1947 Hugh Dalton, ...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Sugar bath
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After commissioning some pointless junk last week, Cancer Research UK lowered the bar again yesterday with some meaningless claims about sug...
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